The veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD and anxiety/depression, is service-connected as secondary to his service-connected back condition. Service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the upper extremities was granted with an effective date of February 5, 1998.
The deciding factor: Service connection established based on secondary relationship to a service-connected disability (back disorder).
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired Psychiatric Disorder (including PTSD and Anxiety/Depression), Peripheral Neuropathy of the Upper Extremities
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 10, 2003
- Citation
- 0300571
Veterans Law Judge
Acting
Decisions by this judge: 191 · Granted: 32% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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